Machine for raking and loading materials such as hay and the like.



J. ROCHAIX & I. ANKEN.

MACHINE FOR BAKING AND LOADING MATERIALS SUCH AS HAY AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 23, 1911.

Patented Oct. 21,1913.

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JOHN ROCHAIX, 0F PETIT-SACGNNEX, NEAR GENEVA, AND ISAAC ANKEN, OF ANIERES, NEAR GENEVA, SWITZERLAND.

MACHINE FOR BAKING AND LOADING MATERIALS SUCH AS HAY AND THE LIKE.

Application filed August 23, 1911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, J on: RooHAIx and Isaac ANKnN, agricultural engineers, both citizens of Switzerland, residing the first at Petit-Saconnex, near Geneva, the second at Anieres, near Geneva, Switzerland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Baking and Loading Materials Such as Hay and the like, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a machine for raking material such as hay and the like and for loading the same upon vehicles. This machine is adapted to be attached be-- hind the vehicle onto which the hay or the like is to be loaded; as the vehicle moves forward the machine rakes up the hay or the like from the ground and loads it onto the vehicle. This machine is preferably provided with a rake the teeth of which are pivoted on a horizontal shaft carried by two wheels which are arranged 011 a frame. This frame is adapted to be fixed behind the haycar. The rake of the machine is combined with an endless conveyer which runs over a roller rotated when the machine moves forward. This roller is arranged concentric with the curved parts of the rake teeth. The endless conveyer is provided with prongs which catch the hay as it is collected in the middle of the rake and carry it over the vehicle to be loaded. I

In order to increase the effective working width of the machine, the latter is provided with rotating bladed devices which are driven by the movement of the machine, and serve to shift the hay collected at the sides of the rake to the middle of the same.

The drawing accompanying this specification illustrates certain embodiments of the present invention and several details thereof. In this drawing like reference letters refer to like parts throughout.

Figure 1 is a side view, and Fig. 2 a plan of one embodiment. Fig. 3 shows a detail of the machine; Figs. 4 to 7 are detail views of several modifications of the conveyer. Fig. 8 illustrates another e1nbodiment.

In the drawing a designates two wheels Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1, 1913.

Serial No. 645,655.

I which are mounted on the ends of a hori zontal axle a which supports one end of a frame 6. The latter carries an elongated sleeve 6 in which the shaft 6 can slide this shaft being provided at its free end with a ring 6 adapted to be connected with a corresponding hook which is placed at the back of the vehicle on which the hay or the like is to be loaded. The shaft Z2 is maintained in the sleeve 6 by means of a bolt which is arranged in holes formed in the shaft and the sleeve and which permits of regulating the distance between the ring and axle a and therefore the position of the machine with relation to the vehicle. The ring might be replaced by a hook or by any other suit able means serving to connect the machine with the back of the vehicle. On the axle a one of the endsof a second frame 0 is mounted, this frame being provided at its rear with a wheel 0 which is mounted in a supporting yoke adapted to pivot on a vertical axis. On each side of the frame 0 are arranged two supports 0 0 which carry at their upper ends a horizontal shaft 0 on which are arranged the teeth d of the rake. Bars 0 connect the shaft 0 with the axle a in order to stay the shaft 0 The teeth d rest upon a cross-bar (Figs. 1 and 2) the screw-threaded ends of which extend through a stirrup 0 one on each side and are each provided with a screw-nut. The ends of the stirrup 0 are secured on the supports 0 by means of bolts passing through slots in the supports 0 The ends of the cross-bar 0 pass through slots in the bars 0 which are carried by the shaft 0 These ends are screw-threaded and provided with nuts which maintain the stirrup c in required position. A cross-bar 0 is arranged between the sides of the stirrups, which bar is pressed by springs 0 so as to tend to maintain the teeth of the rake in their normal position. The frame 0 carries a shaft 0 which is parallel to the axle a and is connected with the same by means of a chain e which passes over a sprocket 0 carried by the shaft 0 and over a sprocket a on the axle a On the shaft 0 two propeller-like sets of blades f are mounted, which when the machine is being dragged behind a vehicle shift the hay which has been collected by the teeth'd at the sides of the rake toward the center of the rake. Between the blades 7 is provided a roller 9 mounted on the shaft 0 upon which roller runs anendlessbelt 72.,

The latter passes over a second roller '5 of relatively small diameter carried by a frame is provided at one of its ends with bushes mounted on the shaft 0. The front end of the frame ,7? is supported at a height which may be regulated to suit the convenience of the user by means of bars Z which pivoted at Z on the frame 6, and the upper ends of which enter notches in the bars 715 secured to the frame 70. The endless belt 7L islprovided'withbent prongs'7t The Wheels a are freely mounted o'nthe'aX'le a and are each connected with a plate a (see Fig. 3)

'c'arryinigpawls a The latter aremain'tained in engagement with ratchets a by means of vehicle into which'the hay or the like is to be dumped. The vehicle is then'mo-ve'd over the field, where the hay to be loaded lies in parallel lines or is spread over the entire surface of the field. The'hay which is collected by the side'teeth of the rake is shifted to the center thereof by the blades f and there it'is caught, together with the'hay'col- "lected by the'centertee'th of the rake, by the prongs 71, of the endlessbelt, which convey the hay over the part o'f'the vehicle Where it isto be dumped, and where it is equally distributed by a laborer on the vehicle.

Owin to the use of the bladesv ffthe surface over which the machine is moved will be co'in'pletely raked,-'and all they hay which was distributed over a relatively wide area .is collected and loaded onto the hay car, wherebythe cost of labor is much'reduced.

For conveying the machine to the place where it is to be used, or from the place where it has'been usedto another place, the rake may be provided with lnean s for raising its teeth. This is not shown in the drawing asany'known type of device may be employed forthis purpose. v

T ofacilitate the'transp'ort of the machine, the framemaybe removed from the shaft c and the machine may b'ei'placed ona car or wagon, so that the axle a and shaft 0 canbe positioned longitudinally-of the -car or wagomto avoid the'difliculty of handling so wide a machinein transport.

in the drawing, the blades f could also com- I prise a plurality of convolutions in order to increase the effective working width of the machine.

Asshown in Figs. handt), the con-veyer may be made of endless ropes or cables 39 which are provided with prongs p and which are arranged between supports m upon which the hay can slide as it moves up the conveyer. The conveyer can be an ranged in any other suitable. manner. As shown in Fig. '6, it may be provided with side flanges n or, as shown in Fig. 7, with a cover 0, which covers the passage way for the hay and p'revents'the wind blowing the hay off the conveyer.

The roller of the belt conveyer, and the blades f instead'of being'arrangedon 'a s'ec- 0nd shaft as shown in Figs. 1 'to 3, canbe arranged directly on the road wheel aXle as shown-1n Fig. 8.

Thefram'es transportin '-members"and-the actuating mechanism of t e machine can be made many other suitable manner without departing from the spirit of our invention;

Having now particularly describedand ascertained the nature of our said-invention and in whatmanner the same is tobeperformed, we declare't-hatwhat we claim is 1.. A machine for-raking and 'loadingmaterials comprising in combination, a shaft,v

driving means therefor, a conveyer roller mounted on said shaft and adapted to rotate therewith, two rotatable screw conveyers, a

rake disposed transversely to the direction of movement of the machlne and extending from substantially the outer end of one screw conveyer to substantially the outer end of the other screw conveyer, said screw ,conveyers being'mount-ed'on said shaft and disposed'one at ea'chsideof said'roller for conveying the material from the ends 'of'the 'rake'toward'the center thereof, and conveyer arranged over the said conveyer'roller for conveying the material from the central portion oftherake.

2. Amachine for raking'and lo'ading na- H iterials comprising in combination, .a shaft disposedperpendicular to the path of movement'of the machine, road wheel's, an axle therefor parallel with saidshaft, driving means between saidaxle and said shaft, a conveyer roller mounted on said shaftand caused to rotate therewith,a rotatable propeller like blade mounted on said shaft on each side of said conveyer roller for con;

veying the material from "the ends of the rake toward the center thereof,'a rake eigtending to substantially the outer ends of said blades, and an endless conveyer running' over said conveyer 'rollerfor conveying the niat-erial from the center of the rake'to the place of delivery.

In a machine for raking and loading veying the material from the central per 10 materials, a plurality oi screw members, tion of the rake.

means for rotating said screw members, a In testimony whereof We have affixed our rake located transversely to the direction of signatures in presence of two Witnesses. movement of the machine for feeding the JOHN ROCHAIX. material to said screw members, said screw ISAAC ANKEN. members in rotating acting to convey the Witnesses:

material from the ends of the rake to the ROD.'DE WURTEMBERGE,

central portion thereof, and means for con- LOUIS H. MUNTER.

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